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After getting pulled from the ballot by the state Supreme Court last year, the question of whether Californians can cast a non...


Delaware Gov. Jack A. Markell signed a long-anticipated bill Wednesday that amends the state's corporate law code by banning f...


Criminal


This week, rather than increasing housing or services, the Los Angeles City Council passed two laws that make it easier to sei...


Constitutional Law


A recent decision by the U.S. high court shows that, at least in some cases, property owners may successfully challenge an unc...


Constitutional Law


Subjective perceptions rule the day

Jun. 26, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

We've been taught that Supreme Court decisions turn on arcane points of law applied with reasoned objectivity to settled facts...


Perspective


Trade authority ascends to Obama's desk

Jun. 26, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

This week, amidst great secrecy from the general public, Congress passed a bill granting fast-track authority for the presiden...


Law Practice


O'Melveny & Myers LLP announced Wednesday it will welcome back three of its former attorneys as partners after serving in ...


A former executive of a Riverside-based renewable energy company has sued his former employer, claiming he was fired after exp...


U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit


The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday vacated the stiff conviction against a man sentenced to 14 years in jail af...


Corporate Counsel


Brian P. Lynch

Jun. 26, 2015
By Jason Pafundin

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Callaway Golf Co. Carlsbad ...


Corporate


Institutional investors look to online lending

Jun. 26, 2015
By Banks Albachn

As online marketplace lending continues to expand, big institutional investors are cautiously eyeing young financial startups ...


Environmental


A Brown administration proposal to exempt drought-related projects from environmental review was narrowed during budget negoti...


Law Practice


Senate Bill 213 finally addresses this problem that is wasting citizens' time, souring potential jurors on the legal system, a...


California Courts of Appeal


An arraignment calendar deputy didn't make a "mistake of fact" by missing police report's mention of potential felonies when s...


Transactions


Dealmakers

Jun. 25, 2015
By Jason Pafundin

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.


Constitutional Law


Judge strikes down anti-gay initiative

Jun. 25, 2015
By America Hernandez

A Sacramento judge allowed state attorney general Kamala Harris to keep the voter initiative from advancing to the next stage....


Perspective


Sea changes are afoot with the minimum wage

Jun. 25, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

This month, the Los Angeles City Council cleared the way to make the city the largest in the United States to have a minimum w...


Entertainment & Sports


Hologram lawsuit resolved

Jun. 25, 2015
By Ashley Cullinsn

Hologram USA settled quietly this month with the Michael Jackson estate and Cirque du Soleil over unauthorized use of the 3-D ...


African Americans in San Francisco face starkly disproportionate rates of arrest according to a recent study, which found that...


Intellectual Property


The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit continued a string of decisions rejecting patent protection for software tec...


Litigation


A Riverside County jury has awarded $40 million to the family of a man who was stabbed to death in a TGI Fridays. ...


Government


'Right to rest' is the wrong answer

Jun. 25, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, Senate Bill 608 is Exhibit A. The bill does not provide any new shelter, bu...


A former Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner said under oath Tuesday that her estranged husband, a semi-retired Irell & Ma...


California Courts of Appeal


Even as the Judicial Council wrestles with a new language access plan to bring more interpreters into courtrooms, a state appe...


Administrative/Regulatory


After audit, State Bar defends dues, backlog

Jun. 24, 2015
By Don Debenedictisn

Contrary to findings in a new audit, the State Bar doesn't have excess money, dues aren't too high and the discipline backlog ...


Corporate Counsel


Robert H. Rader

Jun. 24, 2015
By Melanie Brisbon

General Counsel Ovation TV Santa Monica ...


Perspective


How to recover judgments from phantom litigants

Jun. 24, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Corporate litigants facing a substantial adverse judgment may attempt summary dissolution to evade execution of the judgment a...


Criminal


Peremptory challenges bill a mistake

Jun. 24, 2015
By Ben Armisteadn

Senate Bill 213, currently pending committee approval in the Assembly, is a bill that will substantially decrease the number o...


U.S. Supreme Court


In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court said law enforcement must produce an administrative subpoena for motel owners to cha...


Government


San Mateo County Superior Court Executive Officer John Fitton, who helped lead the court through budget cutbacks during the pa...